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[4wheelsare2many]

Ahhh....I'm thinking the cost of that procedure will nearly equal or exceed the cost of a new machine. Am I right....am I right? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?   lol

[MadMaxGR]

Well it worth to buy a new Arcade with Jasper board.

[NateTheGreat555]

Alright, I'm sorry for the bump, but I'm getting desparate as well...

I got my 360 used Red-ringed from Ebay dirt cheap, and I fixed it initially with the X-clamp mod.

Course, that lasted about 3 weeks (never even played any games yet!) and it froze on an update.
Next thing I knew, I had the 0022 error.

I messed with the clamps and then learned that by also getting 0020 error that the screws were too tight. So I'm stuck with 0022 and don't have anywhere else to go. Don't have a heatgun, and don't want to pay a hundred bucks to send it back to M$ to get fixed.

My questions are...

1. Where can you get that blue tack putty? I'm in the US, and their site seems to be based in Europe?
Is it just normal putty you can get a a Home Depot?

2. What is the best recommended time/temp to put it in the oven for? I saw the initial post stating 500degrees for 8-10, and another saying 250 for 5 minutes. Polar opposites to me. Any suggestions?

3. Who is still using their 360 that used this mod? I'd probably use it for Rockband 2 and those games, probably not too many CoD games... Estimated time? Or is it totally unknown? (which is what I'm suspecting...)

Thanks again for any info anyone can shed on this subject for me!
PS: I=semin00b. I've only "fixed" "2" Xbox's as of yet...  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

EDIT:
Is this the same kind of putty that I could use?
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=prod...&lpage=none

This post has been edited by NateTheGreat555: Aug 14 2009, 08:47 PM

[BroChaos]

i just tried it on my v1 that was always freezing/checkerboarding or RRoD 0102.  wrapped cello tape, then tshirts, then foil, then baked at 450 for 7 minutes.  i didn't have liquid flux, tried melting some gel flux and running it under but i'm not sure if it did anything.  

after it cooled down i played tiger woods for about 30 minutes with no problem.  the next day i played tiger woods again for about an hour, no problem.  later on that day, i turned it on, and just at the dash it froze and went to a black/white vertical lines.  turned it off, turned it back on (expecting RROD) it came up and a minute later froze at the dash again, this time screen went all black.  turned it off and turned it on again, and loaded up ncaa football really, fast and played a whole game (~1hr) just fine, and even went back to the dash and it was fine.  at night i just played another game of ncaa football, and left it at the dash again and no problems.

never seen the black/white vertical lines before, not sure what that was about.  but it is working better than it was before.

[crowncity]

I used this method on quite a few boxes HDMI and non HDMI. I have only had 1 out of 12 boxes that didn't not work afterwards. If you guys are interested check out my tut and how I did it on youtube:

Oven Fix Tut & Results

It's a three part thing and I will be adding some extra tips about how to make the fix last.

Please don't flame me about the video. I was tired after working about 10 hours and then coming home to work on xboxs. Also I kept the x-clamp on, on purpose to use it as a control against the x-clamp fix after.

I hope it helps someone on here that is confused about certain things.

Good luck boys / girls.

This post has been edited by crowncity: Aug 26 2009, 09:56 PM

[adrenaline_X]

Wow... good to hear this is still helping people out LOL.

Mind died, but i didn't bother doing anything to it again.. I got into dead ps3... people were willing to sell them for 50-80$ with just a bad laser LOL... and the ylod of death is fixable.. just about brought out the oven for that too, but bought a high end heat Gun for cheap on sale.. it's still working for now but with the price break on the PS3s, it not worth buying new lasers at 80$ a pop.


Gonna start looking at 360s again

[pwyz18]

Awesome tutorial. It worked for me. I x-clamped 6 months ago. It just took a crap on me today after I just spent 60 on modern warfare 2 lol. Seen this and tried it. It brought a 0110(E20) back to life. Did it for 9min at 500. Now to 12v the fans(since I have no use in listening to music or watching movies on the 360 thats what I have a pc hooked to a tv/stereo for) and separate the airflows. Thanks again.

[sod16]

Hmm looks quiet dangerous, i can imagine this completly failing for me!

[manu_xl]

this is ridiculous and you should all be punished by your parents  

/me will never try this at home ;-)

[mnutz]

Hi all,

I know it's an old thread but thanks to this I've been able to sort out my 360.

Had R74 error and I sorted that by tightening the kit screws underneath the case, then one night the screen pixelated on me.  Took temp of top of GPU cooler and it was 66'c.  Got it down to 50'c with the aid of a large fan and it disappeared only to come back.

I was really worried about putting it in the oven, but glad I did.

I went to a local charity shop and purchased a couple of old towels/tea towels and 1 oven glove.

The oven glove was cut up and placed over capacitors/switches & taped with electrical tape.  Then I put towels over the top and taped that.

Finished it off with silver foil and used the tape that you use on bandages.  

Gas mark 8 (my oven always seems to cook things faster), low down in the oven, for 9 mins.  Took it out and left it to cool to room temp.

Plugged it all in and worked perfectly.  Day 2 so far with lots of Red Dead Redemption playing.  Desk fan always blowing on with standard cooling until I can water cool it

Would suggest everyone tries this as a last resort!

[abaddon997]

I know this is an old thread, but I'll post this for anyone still looking for a last resort 0102 fix.

Did this yesterday as a last attempt to breathe life back into my old Falcon board.

Covered plastic buttons with stick tack, and everything else with old winter socks.
Taped it all down with electrical tape, then used more stick tack to make a "gasket" around the cpu, gpu and ram.
Wrapped it all in an entire roll of aluminum foil and baked for 5 min at 450 degrees.
Did the quick 12v fan mod and divided the the fan vent more appropriately.
Put it all back together and BAM! Worked like a charm.

The electrical tape did not melt or smoke, and neither did the Loctite mounting putty I used.

I will follow up after a couple weeks of playing, but so far I would really recommend this to anyone with an old system just collecting dust. My old Falcon system died about a year ago. I did the usual x-clamp fix and got another 3 months out of it before the 0102 error came back. Pretty much exhausted the forums looking for any other fix and eventually just bought a new system.

Bottom line: This technique is much more reliable than the heat gun reflow imo, because it distributes heat evenly across the entire board. With proper preparation the caps will be fine, just be sure to cover everything properly.